Oracle's Siebel Connector for IAA-XML provides integration between Oracle's Siebel Business Applications and other IAA (Insurance Application Architecture) based business models such as Customer Information Integration Solutions (CIIS) or other applications which support IAA-XML standard. The Siebel Connector for IAA-XML is a configurable set of components that you can use to exchange data between Siebel Business Applications and external IAA based applications and databases.

IAA are set of business data models built to support insurance industry. IAA-XML is IBM's messaging architecture standard for insurance industry. It allows different applications having different data models and running on different technologies to communicate. IAA-XML has 3 key benefits that address the problems in inter application communications:

• Lack of shared semantic and content structure
• Lack of shared syntax and
• Technology Dependency

IAA-XML provides a messaging standard for inter-application communications for the insurance and financial services industries. For example, when two companies merge, IAA-XML can be used as the standard for the design of messages in a hub or a spoke architecture, providing the mechanism for integrating systems built on different platforms. It can also be used as a way of opening systems to business partners. For example, communication between a financial services company and its external network of intermediaries.

The Siebel Connector for IAA-XML is responsible for receiving, parsing and processing the business operations specified in the XML message that conforms to the specification detailed out in the IAA-XML specification document. This integration offers powerful capabilities designed to meet all the IAA message specification requirements. This solution allows you to effectively harness the synergies between Siebel front office applications and IAA based applications. The Siebel Connector for IAA-XML extends Siebel applications to integrate with back office data and business processes.

The Siebel Connector for IAA-XML supports both synchronous and asynchronous transactions across application boundaries. The resulting consistency and sharing of data allows efficient coordination between front and back office operations. For example, sales and service professionals can enter policy information in Oracle's Siebel Financial Services applications and receive real-time response with a quote for the policy entered. The sales or service professional can then complete entering the policy details through the Siebel application interface by completing the requirements and issuing the policy to the customer.